Great Wall of China
An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to…An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.
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Meaning
1 sensesAn ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.
Chinesische Mauer
Вели́кая Кита́йская стена́Velíkaja Kitájskaja stená
Examples
8 sentencesHow long is the Great Wall of China?
Mario finished walking along the Great Wall of China in five days.
deMario hat die Chinesische Mauer in fünf Tagen abgewandert. — Yorwba
The Great Wall of China belongs to the world wonders.
China and Mongolia are separated by the Great Wall of China.
The wall from which Humpty Dumpty fell is not the Great Wall of China.
deDie Mauer, von der Humpty Dumpty fiel, ist nicht die Große Chinesische Mauer. — Manfredo
Translations
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Origin
First used by Daniel Defoe on page 29 of his pamphlet The Advantages of peace and commerceFirst used by Daniel Defoe on page 29 of his pamphlet The Advantages of peace and commerce: with some remarks on the East-India trade (1729); attested but not much in currency until the early 1900s, when it supplanted the Chinese wall (not to be confused with the later jargon term Chinese Wall), perhaps in response to or as part of exaggerated accounts of the wall's size and construction.
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